The most surprising and shocking thing about life is that you only get to know its trajectory as you live it. No one born in one situation remains in it for life long, and by the end, as you look back everything feels like the script of a movie written on a combination of your whim and god's fancies. When one looks at the story of Reginald Lal Singh, the belief sits right. Much of his life remains preserved through his memoirs present in the New York Public Library and through accounts written by his wife, Gwen, whose papers are...